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Forget Silk and Palm -- Go
For Designer Fakes on Walls

Last year, Lynda Claridy decided to decorate her home office in a jungle motif. She went shopping for bamboo to cover the walls, but she found something better -- fake bamboo.

Mrs. Claridy ended up decorating the room with vinyl wallpaper made to look, and feel, like bamboo. "I'm not a wallpaper person, but this looks so real," says Mrs. Claridy, an artist in Franklin Lakes, N.J. "A lot of those things that are supposed...